Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Yemen and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Sonny Sharrock to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Index. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric B and Rakim,
KRS-One,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Outsiders,
Marine Girls,
Das Ding,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Janne Schatter,
These Immortal Souls,
The J.B.'s,
Guru Guru,
Rufus Thomas,
Matthew Halsall,
Zapp,
Tomorrow,
The Angels of Light,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eric Dolphy,
PIL,
The Durutti Column,
Roger Hodgson,
Amon Düül II,
Goldenarms,
Scratch Acid,
Sarah Menescal,
Freddie Wadling,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sight & Sound,
Eddi Front,
Simply Red,
Whodini,
Second Layer,
The Smoke,
MDC,
The Toasters,
Bill Wells,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pharoah Sanders,
Loose Ends,
Y Pants,
Intrusion,
Essential Logic,
Harmonia,
Chrome,
Rosa Yemen,
The Flesh Eaters,
Funkadelic,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Chris & Cosey,
Hot Snakes,
The Victims,
The Happenings,
New Order,
Patti Smith,
Quantec,
The Human League,
Black Sheep,
David Bowie,
The Detroit Cobras,
MC5,
H. Thieme,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.